Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-01

before it. The church Is faf more in
debted to the opposition of civil gov
ernment than to its approval. The
fires of the state have only been the
torches which Christ held ia bis hand
by the light of which the church has
marched to her present position. In
the sound of racks end implements OF
torture / hear tbD rumbling Of the
wheels of the
THE GOSPEL CHARIOT.
Scaholds OF martyrdom have peen
the stairs by which the church has as
cended. A6ua FORTS is the best test of
pure gold.f
Furthermore: Our subject improsses
us that sins will come to exposure.
Long, long ago had these brothers sold
joseph into Egypt. They had sup
pr.Ssed the crime and it was a pro-
feSnd secret well kept by the brothers.
But suddenly the secret is out. The
old father hears that his son is in
Egypt. having been sold there by the
malice of his own brothers. How their
cheeks must have burned and their
near 70 Suhh ~ l'O hdiiiiS oul u Wis
suppressed crime. The smallest in
EQUITY has Il thousand tongues and they
will blab out an exposure. Saul was
sent to destroy the GUARANTEES, their
sheep and their oxen. But when he
got down there among the pastures he
saw some fine sheep and oxen too fat
to kill, and SO he thought he would
otaat <hnnn un drown than fnuarlG
home but stopped to report to the
prophet how well he had executed his
commission, when in the dis
lance the sheep began to bleat and
the oxen to below. The secret was
out and Samuel said to the blushing
and COMPOUNDED Saul: What means
the bleating of the sheep that | hear
and the lowing of the cattle?" Aye,
my hearers, you
CANNOT KEEP AN INIQUITY QUIET.
At just the wrong time the sheep will
bleat aud the oxen will below. Achan
cannot steal the Babylonish garment
without getting stoned to death, nor
Benedict Arnold betray his country
without having his neck stretched.
Look over the police arrests, these
thieves. these burglars, these adulter-
ers, these counterfeiters, these high
waymen, these assassins. They al
; thought they could bury their ~iniquity
, so deep down that it would never come
. To resurrection. But there was some
shoe that answered to the print in the
sand, some false keys found in posses.
sion, some bloody knife that whispered
5 of the deed, and the public indignation,
and the anathema of outraged law
hurled him into the tombs or boosted
: him on the gallows. AT the close Of
) . the battle between the dauphin OF
4 France and the Hclvetiars, Burchard
Monk was go elated with the victory
:: that he lifted his helmet off to look upon
4 the field, when a wounded soldier
5 hurled q stone that struck his uncov.
cred forehead and he fell. Sin will
Q always leave some point exposed and
> there is no safety in iniquity. Francis the
: first, king of France, was discussing
: how it was best TO get his army into
/, Italy. Amaril, the court fool, sprang
out HUH Tue CtfucE dnt edlu W tlt
kirg and his staff officers: You hac
better be thinking how you will gel
your army back out of Italy after once
You have entered" In other words,
3 it is easier for us 10 get into sin than
to get out of it. Whitefield was riding
on horseback in a lonely way with some
missionary money in a sack fastened
to the saddle bags. A highwayman
sprang III from the thlcket and pu,
his hand OFT toward the gold when
Whitefeld turned upon him and said;
That belongs to the Lord Jesu
Christ, touch Il il you dare and the
villain fell B ck empty handed into the
thicket. q, the power of conscience
II offended, il becomes
Gop's AvENGING MINISTER.
Do not think that you can hide any
great and protracted sin in your hearts.
In an unguardcG momcnt il VIII silly
on of the lip, or some 81 gilt oecassiop
may for a moment set ajar this door OF
hell that You wanted To keep closed
But suppose that in this life You hide
it, and you get along with that trans
gress on burning IN your heart as q
ship on fire within for days may hinder
the flame from bursting u by keeping
down the ha -chways, yet at last ia
the judgement, that iniquity will blaze
out before the throne Of God and the
universe.
Furthermore: Learn from this sub
ject the inseparable connection between
all events however remote. Lord
Hastings was beheaded one year after
he had caused the death of the Queens
children, in the very month, the very
day, the very hour. and the very mo-
ment. There is wonderful precision in
the Divine Judgments. The universe
is only one thought of God. Those
things which seem fragmentary and
isolated are only different parts of that
one great thought. How far apart
seemed these two events--Joseph sold
to the Arabian merchants and the ruler
ship of Egypt. Tet you see in what a
mysterious way God connected the two
in one plan. So all events are linked
together. You who are aged a look
back and group together a thousand
things in your life that once seemed
isolated. One